I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
Francois RabelaisI urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
Francois RabelaisThe age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.
Francois Rabelais